Good Day "50"

Good morning everyone 

Glad to see you getting back to normal Peggy  

Well I will have a go at reinstalling tomorrow but been busy today,

Groceries just arrived and all unpacked, now settle down for the evening

Ruth, my son has come back from Morocco and he said there was plenty of veg on the menu,  did you have veg when you went out for your evening meal 

The evening meal in Germany Peggy, no veg, well just a few fried onions and mushrooms, very fatty. 

The meal we went out for in the village last night, loads of veg and salad on offer, lots of choice.

We went to Africa a few years ago, The Gambia, all the meals were in the hotel and were buffet style, there was tons of salad and veg. We struggled to find veg in LA and Florida Keys. Australia and New Zealand much like here lots of choice. Same in the Mediterranean countries, no problem.

Germany was odd with milk as well it was all treated, long life stuff, we really had difficulty locating any fresh. 

I've been waiting for my Tesco order, it was due between 7pm and 8pm, I had a text at 7.40 from Tesco saying the driver was held up and he would be here before 9pm. He's just been, he's running about 2  hours behind, there has been a fatal accident over the tops on the moors. That's someone's Christmas ruined then 

Another sad thing is that he said that some of his customers would moan like mad because their sprouts were a couple of hours behind schedule. 

Apart from working for a few years on the Yorkshire Ripper enquiry in Leeds I spent most of my Police Service working around these parts. You know the terrain Dave, high moors, a very high motorway, desolate areas in no mans land, and of course we get the weather. I've shut the roads around here many times and have had to stand in freezing conditions explaining to drivers that the road is shut due to snow.

Bus drivers, wagon drivers, delivery drivers, people who drive for a living, just accept the fact, but the amount of abuse I got from the types with suits hung on coat hangers in the back of company cars was amazing. Sometimes I got so fed up I let them through, only to see them walking back in their suits, cold and soaking wet hours later without car - how I laughed. They didn't 

One of my uncle's was the police chief in Miama, Florida...we went back there to see his old buddies as we think my mom's cousin's death was an bit suspicious. For one thing she came up with an boyfriend none of us in the family had ever heard her mention..he was the one took her to the hospital..which told different stories as to why she was there. But daughter"and it gnerally runs in our family. Same thing for the fire department. Same thing for the justice deptartment also. By in large we have enough people in the medical society to run our own hospital also. Not to count the numerous friends we know also in these professions. 

law's MRI today....her tumor is still massive looking... after the surgery.I thought they had it in remission. Some parts of it they could not take out as it would affect her speech and abilty to swallow... or something on that order. I can see now why my brother was so shook up....this year finds them with over $200,000 in debt from the surgery alone. They could use an miracle and keep passing it along to others.

I'm into the final of "X-factor" this season and making "chex cereal" snack mix..so talk later on.  I had for dinner tonight an LTB with cheese green salad, artichoke and jalpeno dip on crackers and an small bowl of chili...and am sipping on Orange mango sparkling water. Done with the sweets/cookies now.

>>> Sister in laws MRI today....her tumor is still massive looking... after the surgery. I thought they had it in remission. Some parts of it they could not take out as it would affect her speech and abilty to swallow... or something on that order. I can see now why my brother was so shook up....this year finds them with over $200,000 in debt from the surgery alone. They could use an miracle and keep passing it along to others.

So why isn't there a charity to help people like this Shirley rather than the cats, dogs or donkeys? I guess the trouble is some would abuse it saying they have nothing when in fact they are, or would be quite capable of paying. That said, I would have thought that appropriate checks could easily be made to confirm a position such as you describe. Now that really would be a charitable thing worthy of support in my view.